The Unchangeable

O NEVER say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seemed my flame to qualify;
cs easy might I from myself depart
cs from my soul, which in your breast do lie.

That is my home of love; if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again,
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
So that myself bring water for my stain

Never believe, though in my nature reigned
cll frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stained, be stained
To leave for nothing all your sum of good;

For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save you, my rose: in it you art my all.